JAVI CASARRUBIAS 1960’S POWERPOINT

1960

• The 1960 Ford Thunderbird was one of the greatest achievements in American automotive design.

1960

• The T-Bird was Ford’s new FE block, a 352 cid v8 producing 300 horsepower.

1960

• The 1960 Thunderbird was given a new grille.

1960

• The 1960 Ford Thunderbird was given new tail-lamps.

1961

• In 1961 the Chevy Corvette was substantially upgraded.

1961

• The Chevy Corvette introduced the ducktail design.

1961

• For the 1961 Corvette the exhaust now exited below the body not in the bumper.

1961

• This 1961 Chevy Corvette has a v8 engine producing 270 horsepower.

1962

• In 1962 the Cuban Missile crisis was a major cold war confrontation between the united states and the soviet union.

1961

• Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S missiles were capable of striking the entire soviet union.

1962

• On October 27, a letter to Kennedy arrived suggesting that missile installations in Cuba would be dismantled if the united states dismantled its missile installations in turkey.

1962

• Further negotiations were held to implement the October 28th. This agreement included a united states demand that soviet union light bombers also be removed from Cuba. It would specify the exact form and conditions of united states assurances not to include Cuba.

1963

The 1963 Buick Wildcat received some new styling changes for 1963.

1963

•The 1963 Wildcat was sportier because it was scripted on the rear fenders, within the rear cove and across the front of the hood.

1963

• The rarest of the three Wildcat body styles was the convertible, which saw a production of 6,021.

1963

• The 1963 Wildcat has a 325 horsepower engine with 401 cubic inch nail head.

1964

• Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei South Africa on July 18, 1918.

• His father was chief Henry Mandela of the Tembo tribe.

1964

• Mandela’s first wife was Evelyn Massy who was a young cousin of his friend Walter Sisulu.

1964

• Nelson Mandela was acquitted in 1962 on charges of treason he was arrested in 1964 and convicted of sabotage and sentenced to life in prison, where he became the leading symbol of South Africa’s oppressed black majority.

1964

• Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 as an expression of president Deklerks commitment to change.

• Mandela was elected in 1991 ANC president after a triumphal global tour.

1965

• Malcolm X was born in Omaha Nebraska in may 19th, 1925.

• Malcolm was son of James Earl Little, A Baptist preacher who advocated the Black Nationalist ideals of Marcus Garvey.

1965

• In 1946 Malcolm was sent to prison on burglary.

• Malcolm was released after 6 years in prison and became a loyal and effective minister of the Nation of Islam in Harlem.

1965

• In March 1964 Malcolm left the Nation of Islam and established his own religious organizations, The organization of Afro American unity.

1965

•At a speaking engagement in Manhattan's Audubon ballroom on February 21, 1965 three gunmen rushed Malcolm on stage and shot him 15 times at close range.

1965

1966

• On July 1, 1966 Medicare became available.

• The new law begins a revolution in health care.

1966

•There are two parts of Medicare, Part A of Medicare covered hospitalization.

•Part B was a partially subsidized voluntary program cover physical care.

1966

• The legislation also established Medicaid, which expanded federal aid to finance health care for poor though state-administered programs.

1966

• Medicare also offers an advantage plan.• Advantage plans allow Medicare users

to customize their plan to more closely fit their medical needs.

• Some of these plans offer prescription drug programs, and private insurance companies provided some of the coverage in these programs.

1967

• Harold Holt was born in Sydney Australia on August 5, 1908.

• Holt Married Zara Fell in 1946 and adopted her three sons from previous marriage.

1967

• Harold Holt became Australia’s prime minister after having spent 32 years in parliament in 1966.

1967

• On December 1967 Holt was only 59 years old when he went missing yes he had already served a lifetime in service to Australia’s government.

• Holt went to cheviot beach with a few friends.

• At first his friends could see him swimming, a few minutes later they had lost him.

• Harold Holts disappearance has remained a mystery all these years.

1968

• Robert Kennedy was born in Brookline Massachusetts, in 1925.

1968

• In 1950 Kennedy married Ethel Shakel and their first child, Kathleen was born on July 4, 1951.

1968

• In 1951 Kennedy joined the criminal division of the U.S department of justice but resigned the following year to help his brother John F. Kennedy, in his successful campaign to be elected the senate.

1968

• Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968 just after midnight at the ambassador hotel in Los Angeles.

• The Shooter was identified as Sirhan Sirhan.

• Kennedy was shot 3 time, one bullet fired at range entered behind his ear, two other bullets entered at the rear oh his right armpit and exited from his chest.

• Robert died at 1:44am nearly 26 hours after the shoting.

1969

• Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda California.

• Nixon Married Patricia Ryan in 1940.

1969

• Nixon was elected president in 1969 and was the 37th president of the United States.

1969

• In 1969 Nixon appointed Henry Kissinger as his adviser on National security affairs.

• Kissinger played an important role in the improved relationships with both China and Soviet Union in the early 1970s.

1969• On August 9th, 1974 Nixon became the first

president of the United States to resign from office.

• Dean issued a statement making it clear that he was unwilling to be a “scapegoat in the water gate”.

• When Dean testified on June 25, 1973 before the senate committee investigating Watergate, he claimed that Nixon participated in the cover-up.

• He also confirmed that Nixon had tape-recordings of meetings where these issues were discussed.

• On September 8, 1974 Nixon was being pardoned for all crimes that he might have committed during his presidency.

• Richard Nixon died on April 22, 1994.